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Fedora 26: 2018-5950093e69 Critical: Wavpack Buffer Over-Read

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Calendar Grey March 6, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important security patch available for Fedora 26 resolving buffer overflow vulnerabilities in wavpack. Apply the update immediately using dnf.
Security fix for CVE-2018-6767, CVE-2018-7253, and CVE-2018-7254

Summary

WavPack is a completely open audio compression format providing lossless,

high-quality lossy, and a unique hybrid compression mode. Although the

technology is loosely based on previous versions of WavPack, the new

version 4 format has been designed from the ground up to offer unparalleled

performance and functionality.

Security fix for CVE-2018-6767, CVE-2018-7253, and CVE-2018-7254

[ 1 ] Bug #1547735 - CVE-2018-7254 wavpack: Heap-based buffer over-read in ParseCaffHeaderConfig function in cli/caff.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547735

[ 2 ] Bug #1547719 - CVE-2018-7253 wavpack: Heap-based buffer over-read in ParseDsdiffHeaderConfig function in cli/dsdiff.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547719

[ 3 ] Bug #1542550 - CVE-2018-6767 wavpack: stack buffer overread via crafted wav file

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1542550

su -c 'dnf upgrade mingw-wavpack' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 5.1.0
Release: 4.fc26
Summary: Completely open audiocodec

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